The Space Development Steering Committee

The Space Development Steering Committee was founded in the spring of 2006 by Howard Bloom at the urging of NASA Senior Risk Analyst Feng Hsu and of astronaut Buzz Aldrin^{[citation needed]}. The Space Development Steering Committee includes Aldrin, the sixth astronaut on the moon, Edgar Mitchell, the Chief of the Future Science and Technology Exploration Branch of the US Air Force, Peter Garretson, the National Science Foundation Program Director for Control, Networks & Computational Intelligence, Paul Werbos, the Chief Scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center, Dennis Bushnell, NASA Senior Risk Analyst, Feng Hsu, Boeing Phantom Works' Ed McCullough, Air Force Research Laboratory veteran James Michael Snead, the world’s leading expert on space solar power, 25-year NASA veteran John Mankins, space settlement activist Al Globus[1], National Space Society Senior Vice President Mark Hopkins, President of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution Barbara Marx Hubbard, Founder and Host of The Space Show Dr. David M. Livingston[2], Jerome C. Glenn. The Space Development Steering Committee also includes the National Space Society Executive Director George Whitesides, the Space Frontier Foundation's Rick Tumlinson, and Mars Society founder Robert Zubrin^{[citation needed]}.

The Space Development Steering Committee's Mission Statement explains the group's purpose as follows: "For close to 40 years, the space community has been developing new dreams, new schemes for making life a multiplanetary project--for taking ecosystems and you, me, and our children into permanent homes in space. The Space Development Steering Committee is dedicated to making those private visions public. And The Space Development Steering Committee is dedicated to giving a vast new frontier to the grand experiment of life, to the family of DNA."^{[citation needed]}